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June 7, 2009
Schools in Clinton Hill
We're very interested in moving to Clinton Hill but don't know anything about the nursery/elementary public schools in the area. Do they have a good reputation? What are considered the best schools in the area?
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This was a bad neiboughood up until very recently. So schools are bad. But new people moved in and parents try to get control over the schools. So maybe in the future Clinton hill will have better schools. But not right now.
Posted by: bobjohn at June 7, 2009 9:13 PM
ps11 (on Waverly Ave & greene ave) is considered pretty good. it's been getting pretty good schools on the board of Ed scorecards.
Posted by: more4less at June 7, 2009 10:31 PM
Community Roots Charter School is excellent.
Posted by: CHM at June 8, 2009 12:54 PM
Warning: there are few slots for the good stuff. The Coop School (preschool) has a big waiting list and Community Roots Charter School (elementary school) is a lottery school and the odds of winning are not good (was it a 7% acceptance rate for incoming Sept.?) Folks from out of District 13 are crashing the Community Roots lottery which makes it even harder to get in.
Posted by: Art Salt at June 8, 2009 1:39 PM
If you are moving to Clinton Hill you should just factor in 20 thousand per kid per year for private school. Schools are very bad here.
Posted by: brickoven at June 8, 2009 1:42 PM
Clinton Hill is a Great neighborhood. I think both PS 11 and Community Roots are good schools. Active Parents; involved teachers and good test scores.
I just looked at the State math test for 3rd graders in both schools. 95.8% of the PS 11 3rd graders passed; at Community Roots 96.1% passed, but PS 11 had a significantly higher number of kids who scored in the highest "4" range (31% as opposed to 13.7%)
Posted by: bedstuy11216 at June 8, 2009 4:44 PM
So people were "cheating" in the CR lottery? Did they get caught?
Posted by: gingerbrownie at June 8, 2009 8:19 PM
The Greene Hill School -- a new, private progressive elementary school in Clinton Hill. I hear that they are pulling in some of the students from The Co-op School preschool. Tuition is significantly lower than other private schools. www.greenehillschool.org
Posted by: southslope11215 at June 9, 2009 3:43 PM
For preschool-K, the Dillon Center is a longstanding institution in the neighborhood. My child had a great experience there. It's run by St. Joseph's College, and their early education students assist the teachers in the classroom.
Posted by: since 2000 at June 9, 2009 4:22 PM
Wow - I hope Bobjohn and Brickoven at least live in the neighborhood. Clinton Hill was not a bad neighborhood - it has been a solid working class and middle class neighborhood for quite a while. Schools such as PS 11 and PS 20, and the middle school on Adelphi have provided solid if traditional education to many. That said many of us who have moved in recently have been disappointed with the quality of leadership and the lack of creativity. For the past ten years the pendulum has swung back and forth between PS 11 and PS 20 in terms of it being the darling of the new set. A new principal at PS 11 has attracted some attention and interest, especially as there was a lot of conflict with the principal at PS 20 (who was recently arrested!). PS 20 was recently chosen to be the site for a borough wide G & T program, but what that will mean in the troubled times there is unclear. Many parents, myself included, have chosen to look elsewhere for public schools. There is a sizable contingent at PS 261, the Brooklyn New School, and Manhattan Schools such as NEST. It is not simple, but parents with gumption can make it work - either by cultivating a local school or by elbowing their way into more established schools. You might want to check out FGKids group on Yahoo for more info.
Posted by: Putnamdenizen at June 9, 2009 4:49 PM
I think all good NYC elementary schools have out of zone/district/etc. kids where the parents have lied about their home address. Every good parent should do everything they can to get their child into good school, so I don't blame folks for lying. Plus, it's hard to tell of DOE really cares about this issue especially after Edward F. Stancik, special commissioner of investigation for the New York City School District, died. Btw, was Ed a hermaphordite or a transsexual?
Posted by: Art Salt at June 10, 2009 10:32 AM
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